Wednesday, June 16, 2010

I'm Married! :)

I've finally been able to upload all my polaroids from my crazy Kaua'i vacation that ended in my very own, and very unforeseen, wedding. I've told the story of our vacation/wedding so many times, and yet not enough! There are still some of my friends who I haven't had the chance to tell yet. However, I've really felt the need to write a blog about it.... and today's my day.

Let's see.... let me break it down as basically as I can (this could be madly boring for some, and amusing for those of you who are actually in the midst of planning your own wedding).

DAY 1:

Mike and I wake up early, and go on the most amazing helicopter ride we've ever been on. Immediately after, we started looking at houses to rent, for the wedding we were planning for September of 2011.

DAY 2:

We wake up early and go on a beautiful hike to the Hanakapi'ai Falls. 4 miles in, where the falls are, is one of the most beautiful places I'd ever been. Afterwards, we tried food from a possible caterer.

DAY 3:

We see more houses and a wedding cottage that sits on a bluff, that gave us the chills. Visit a possible florist for the wedding in 2011. Then something makes us pull over to the side of the road, and say, "I don't give a crap about any of this stuff. I just want to be married to you,". We'd been engaged for a year and a half already, and it felt a little silly to have to wait another year and a half to get married just because of scheduling. Lame, right? So now we're actually contemplating this crazy new decision!

DAY 4:

We are excited about this new idea, yet tortured by it. We can't stop thinking about it. Weighing the pros and cons, going back and forth, never on the same page about it. When he wanted to do it now, I wasn't ready to make the leap yet. Then when I was ready, he wasn't all of a sudden. In the meantime, we are seeing more houses, and watching the Celtics game at a hotel pool bar. We have another road side pow wow at dusk, and finally we both come to the same decision: Let's do it now. Let's have our next door neighbor in L.A. marry us. Let's invite our nearest and dearest friends who we know might be crazy enough to fly down at a day's notice. :-O

DAY 5:

We completely forget that we have scheduled a 4 hour horse-back ride this morning and it's too late to cancel! We do a ton of trotting and cantering and some galloping on a muddy trail with steep drops to our right and left, and almost die a couple times. In the end it was the perfect beginning to our wedding planning! It was exhilarating! Afterwards, we immediately drove to the marriage license agent, and caught him in the nick of time before he left his office and all the offices closed up for Memorial Weekend. Now we are booking friend's flights, and the houses we all stay in. Luck was on our side, because somehow, on a major holiday weekend, the two houses we wanted, were available (one of which was the wedding cottage on the bluff that gave us chills, and as a result, the spot where we got married). I order flowers from the the one florist I met.

DAY 6:

Mike buys a linen suit at Macy's. I can't find anything that looks sort of like a wedding dress, but isn't cheesy. We pick up our neighbor from the airport. Stop off for some lunch and happen to find a tall parasol/umbrella with hearts and bells hanging off of it. The perfect thing for us to get married under! We drop our neighbor off at house 1, and wait as more friends come in. My neighbor's wife, who couldn't come with, broke into our house to get me a proper dress (that I bought from Top Shop!) and handed it off to one of my girlfriend's who was flying out the next day. My girlfriend and I found a bunch of pretty candles and lights for the table and pool. Everything's starting to come together!!!DAY 7:

I forgot about a wedding cake! I call the best place I could find, and luckily she had a cancellation and could make us a proper 2-tier wedding cake for tomorrow (this is the day before the wedding!). We buy wedding rings at Kay Jewelers for really cheap, but the bands are sort of perfect! More friends fly in. They brought my dress, and a video camera that had no battery! And the guy from this amazing rental car company lent us his own personal one!!! We have a "rehearsal dinner" and drinks afterwards where one of my girlfriends dressed me up in a tiara-veil, a "bride" t-shirt, a "bachelorette" sash, and a huge plastic ring that glowed all different colors. (the funny thing is, I had bought my first Bridal magazine for the airplane ride to Kaua'i, and they of course had a month-by-month checklist. Here we were checking it all off from hour to hour!)

DAY 8:

WEDDING DAY. The morning begins with a rainbow. And Mike and all the boys have ordered the girls massages. :) The cake arrives. The flowers arrive. My bouquet is not what I wanted though! Ahh!!! My friends run to the market and grab more flowers, and I get to rearrange my own bouquet, which is what I always wanted to do anyway! The girls dress me up and do my hair. We all have gardenias in our hair. We drive over to the wedding site, which is a bluff that overlooks the ocean and the mountains. The boys have set up the parasol and a circle of bougainvillea petals in which we all stand, perfectly. And I start the long walk to my friends, and my soon-to-be-Husband.After the wedding, a friend of ours made the most delicious hors d'oeuvres and dinner!!! We had lots of champagne, lots of wine, lots of food, lots of cake, and lots of love.

I am so lucky to have such a beautiful family of friends. And now I am a married woman! And the wedding is done!!! No more intense wedding website emails, no more waiting, no more stressing over guest lists. It's done! Some people say marriage isn't a big deal, it's just a piece of paper. But I have to say, for myself, and for Mike, as soon as we were "Man & Wife" we both felt an immediate, and wonderful change. It's subtle, and sort of hard to explain...but it's just the best feeling.

Congratulations, m'dear! It sounds absolutely lovely and perfect. As silly as it sounds, I was cheering for you the entire blog post from Day One to Day Eight (even though I knew it would all work out, haha). May love and blessings continue to surround you, especially now that you've started the wedded life. (:

Wow, now that's a nice wedding. If I ever get married (I'm 23 and scared of the word) I'll probably do something very personal like this. Just the close friends and family. Like in music, simple is sometimes much better and beautiful.Congratulations and I hope to see you live when I go back to Canada.

ohmy goodness. tears just welled and welled. i am a fan of your beautiful voice and lyrics and am always 'meaning' to read your blog but this is the first post i've ever read. your joy leaps off the page. all the best to you and your new husband... ( i remember loving hearing that over and over again) cheers!

congratulations!!! so happy for you, what an absolutely beautiful story! no one could have planned it, and that's what makes your special day so amazing! May all your hills and valleys in marriage be sprinkled with beautiful flowers! Lizzy

oh my gosh, congrats!! i am so happy for you! this is rachel, matt white's friend. i came to your housewarming with him. i love your music and your heart to want to help our fundraiser, and i am so over the moon! you make me want to believe in love again. :)

Oh, what a wonderful and delightful story. My husband and I were engaged for a year and a half, and I was constantly feeling the pull to just elope! Part of me still wishes we had, but our wedding was really beautiful in the end.

And I agree with you... my husband and I also felt the instant "change" after our vows. Something very significant shifted and it felt most wonderful.

wow, what a beautiful story. I am so happy for you both. I believe the wedding should match the couple, and in your case, it seems the wedding was a perfect reflection of your personalities. Congratulations to you both and may you have a wonderful life together.

OMG! that was sooo beautiful!I can cry!Congradualtions love! (:thank you for telling us yourstory and sharing the love, itsvery much appreciated. I'll havemy blog up and running again soonso I'll have to make sure to follow you.

I absolutely LOVE this. Weddings have all but lost their entire meaning these days. They are supposed to be a celebration of love and union...period. So much focus on all the things to make it perfect, everyone having different ideas of what 'perfect' even is, stress, money, time, more stress and then BLAM! it's over in a minute!

You did the right thing. You will remember this forever because of how you did it and that you didn't stress about all the truly unimportant things.

For those of your friends/fam that couldn't make it...have a big bash when you get back and everyone gets to have a blast - totally stress free.

I'm so sad there isn't a picture of you and the groom! I'm sure you'd want to keep them private.. I'm so happy for you :) such a fan. You're beautiful, and I lurk to find ANY info at all about a new album!

That is the most precious, beautiful, wonderful thing I've read in quite a while. My fiance, (Shannon from Pennsylvania) and I have watched you over the years at the hotel cafe and now that I'm heading back to California for 2 weeks to plan our wedding for September, I wanted to see if you were playing anywhere in the area - and then I read all this wonderful news and its just so wonderful that you were able to do it exactly how you wanted and exactly who you wanted to do it with. This blog post totally gave me chills!! The most hugest congratulations to the married couple!!

First off, CONGRATULATIONS Priscilla!! I can't even begin to imagine the rush and and beauty of the situation; planning a distant wedding that happens to be the ending to your vacation. It must have been ethereal to say the least!

I haven't had the privilege of being wed, but let me tell you, it's almost funny how beautifully time passes when you have someone to share it with.

CONGRATULATIONS!!! Wow! What a story, and great photo accompaniment! And I'm so happy to hear that Hawai'i played a big part in your magical experience. :) The greatest plans of mice and men (or the most expensive wedding planner on the planet) couldn't have come up with a more perfect moment that means so much to both of you. If only we were all so lucky... :)

CONGRATULATION Priscilla & Mike. I love how both of you finally decide to make the day your own. Your wedding day is supposed to be special, but it's not supposed to consume or overshadow your relationship.

Wedding is just one day, the most important part is the days after the wedding which is your marriage.

Oh, sweet Priscilla. I loved reading this and am so happy for you two. I tell Kevin this all the time..."Let's just be married." I don't want the fuss or the plan or the stress. I just want to be married to him. I adore that Kauai inspired you...it's like heaven on earth, there. I miss you and love you both. XoX--Cinnamon

Priscilla, Thank you for your music, really truly. It's been a comfort when I'm feeling lonely, lost, scared and unsure, when I just can't talk to anyone. And big Congratulations on your marriage! I hope your lives and love together only get sweeter and richer with each passing season. Take care, friend :)

I am a photographer starting to work with motion. Your music really fits my sensibility. I would like to use your music for a series of motion clips on my web site ONLY. If you are not OK with it, I understand and will use other music that does not fit as well. I would love to photograph you or help you with photography in any way as a trade.

WOW, P!!!! I had no idea!!! As disappointed as I am that I may or may not have been invited to your wedding in 2011, this is SO you. Whimsical. It's how you guys got engaged anyway right? Just on a feeling? :) Congratulations!! You took some beautiful photos!

This the first time I read this...and all I have to say is I couldn't imagine a wedding anymore perfect as yours. I really wish this can happen to me someday to someone special. And she has to play the guitar and have a perfect voice so I can indulge her in her simple wonderness (My word). :)

What a perfect wedding! I have to tell my sister to check out your post. She is planning an LA wedding after just moving there last week. With only 5 weeks to go, their perfect venue overlooking malibu just accidentally booked her contracted date for something else and they wont give it back to my sis! She is freaking out since it was a vacation home with a beautiful terrace for the wedding, but also with rooms for guests that are coming from all over the world to stay in. They are on a strict budget and that was their main purchase for their wedding. Your story just sounds so free-spirited and stress free! I want her to see it and hopefully take courage from it. Thank you for sharing your story and congratulations!

thank you for sharing that. what a beautiful wedding story it made me tear up. lol everything seemed to fall into place so perfectly! congratulations and im glad you got to have the dream wedding with the love of your life. <3

what a lovely, lovely thing...soo appropriate for you, dear, one with such a lovely voice. i just discovered you from "Love Happens" ...and isn't that oddly appropriate, too? enchanted w/ "Dream"...so beautiful. (another musico w/ some PA roots makes good...gotta be somethin in that rural PA water, i think!) thank u for sharing your gift and this story w/ us, and huge best wishes! Dana

Hello There! I was just watching Michael on "The Good Guys" and started 'googling' - and discovered this blog. Congratulations to you Priscilla and Michael...great wedding tale. I wish you many decades of love and happiness. Now...I think you should return to Hawai'i each and every year for your anniversary! (Good idea, no?). All the best, Abigail

Coming up on your first anniversary in less than a month! This is a beautiful story, great photos and I'm so pleased to have seen you perform at Sundance in January (also the videos of Park City's snow scenes etc. in your vlogs.) Hope you and Mike are continuing to feel the love and know that we, your fans, all love you too and wish you the very best in life.

Hey, your wedding photographs are way too amazing and we are also planning for such a dream wedding at exotic NYC wedding venues. We want to have naturally beautiful wedding so we have booked an outdoor hilly wedding place.